PESHAWAR: Participants at a seminar said that social media has played a tremendous role in bringing revolution (Arab Spring) in Arab countries like Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and now in Syria. That’s why people dub it as Facebook or social media revolution, said speakers in a one-day seminar on the changing role of social media in […]
KARACHI: The annual elections of Karachi Press Club (KPC) will be held at its premises on December 29. This was announced by the Chairman of the Election Committee, Prof Dr Tauseef Ahmed Khan, on Friday. He said that there are two panels- the Green Panel headed by GM Jamali and The Democrats led by Muhammad […]
By: Imran Mukhtar ISLAMABAD: Foreseeing pre-poll rigging on the part of NADRA in the presence of powerful interior minister, the proposal to bring the authority under the administrative control of Election Commission or Cabinet Division is seriously being considered, TheNation has learnt reliably. The National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA) has carried out ‘Electoral Rolls […]
By: REHAN YOUSAF Pakistan and the subcontinent in general, are very unfortunate places to be a woman in. The recent case of a gang rape of a young girl on a bus in New Delhi has made the world stand up and take note of the deteriorating situation of female affairs in this part of […]
LAHORE: A group painting exhibition by renowned artists kicked off at Coopera Art Gallery on Friday. Lahore DCO Noorul Amin Mengal inaugurated the exhibition. He appreciated the efforts of artists belonging to Sindh and Punjab. He said that such events could bring the provinces more closely and help students learn the art of painting.More than […]
By: Sher Khan LAHORE: With a perfect blend of Punjabi folk and western blues in their debut track Daru Di Botal, East Side Story made its way into the spotlight earlier this year. The Lahore-based band has been anything but conventional and ordinary with its music. The duo is now back with its new single […]
By: Umer Nangiana / Zahid Gishkori / Gibran Ashraf ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday tweeted that the world’s largest video-sharing web portal, YouTube will be restored within 24 hours. Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT) officials told The Express Tribune that at least two stakeholders, the interior minister and the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) […]
Karachi: It was the screaming of Ume Kalsoom’s children that made her neighbours rush to her Madina Colony residence in the Orangi Town on Friday. The mother of two children had been killed in cold blood by her husband. After spotting the strangled woman, the neighbours informed the police, who shifted the body to the […]
Karachi: The threat of terrorism in many parts of the country, coupled with procrastination on the part of lawmakers in taking effective measures, made 2012 an uneventful year for the cause of women and children rights, experts say. However, at least one law was passed in November, i.e. Right to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, […]
By: Akhtar Amin PESHAWAR: The human rights cases remained the focus of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) in 2012 as through the court’s efforts over 900 missing persons were released while around 1,000 — allegedly detained and charged in terrorist activities by the law-enforcing agencies — were shifted to the government’s notified internment centres in […]
LONDON: The Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousufzai who was shot in the head by the Taliban has been named The Times “Young Person of the Year” for her heroism “not only beyond her years but almost beyond belief”. Malala is currently being treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham for the wounds caused after […]
By: Mumtaz Alvi ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday issued a reminder to the political parties asking them to file intra-party poll documents and statements of their accounts, failing which they won’t be allotted symbols to contest the general elections. The commission said that the fresh applications had been invited from political […]
HYDERABAD: Sindh Minister for Culture Sassui Palijo has said that her ministry is planning to gradually convert Bhit Shah into an international cultural city. Plans to establish the Institute of Research and Music Academy and an art gallery depicting seven ‘surs’ (themes) of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai’s poetry in the historical town were steps in […]
By: Ikram Junaidi ISLAMABAD: Ramna police station registered a case of murder (under section 302), in the case of the 22-year-old girl, who died after falling from a building, in sector G-11/4, on Thursday night, but the name of suspects were not mentioned in the First Information Report (FIR). “No suspects are being mentioned in […]
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